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originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
Why did nothing racist show up on any of my searches?
I tried Google, Bing, and Duck Duck Go, and not even the word racist showed up. ??
My white friends trivialise racism by labelling everything racist. How do I tell them to stop?
Dear Ms Understanding,
My white friends have become increasingly comfortable with labelling people as racist in an offhand manner, even when the person isn’t racist. It makes me uncomfortable as it feels as if they are trivialising racism and ignoring actual racist issues. I’d like to know how to tell them to stop without them instantly getting defensive and saying they’re an ally.
Dear Friend,
It is deeply frustrating when people casually throw around the term racism as though any slight is racist, particularly when the people doing it have no lived experience of racist humiliation or discrimination. And you’re right: this sort of behaviour abstracts racism and reduces it to a term that is absent of meaning. It trivialises the very real experiences of people who have to live with racism, especially since, as you know, there is absolutely no reason to make stuff up about racism – it’s rife
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